Images Dated 2019 March

Pretty Polly - Queen of the Turf - sponsored by Apollinaris

Horse Racing - Pretty Polly - The Queen of the Turf - sponsored by Apollinaris, "The Queen of Table Waters". Pretty Polly (1901-1931), was an outstanding Irish bred Thoroughbred racehorse and an outstanding broodmare. She won fifteen consecutive races and was only the fifth filly to win the British Fillies Triple Crown since its inception in 1814. Date: circa 1905

16 Mar 2019

© Bubblepunk

The City Hotel, Freetown, Sierra Leone

The City Hotel, Sierra Leone, made famous by author Graham Greene. Now demolished. The hotel was first mentioned in Greene's 1936 book Travel Without Maps'. It was then thinly disguised as The Bedford in The Heart of The Matter 1948. The hotel caught fire in 2000, killing several people. It was then demolished Date: circa 1985

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library